Elasticsearch highlights

This list summarizes the most important enhancements in Elasticsearch 7.1.1. For the complete list, go to Elasticsearch release highlights.

Transport Layer Security (TLS), commonly referred to as SSL, is now licensed under the free-of-charge Elastic Basic license. Previously, this security feature required a paid Gold-tier subscription. With the default distribution, you can now encrypt all Elasticsearch communication, within a cluster and across remotes clusters. Download Elasticsearch, configure TLS, and run your cluster in production, knowing all Elasticsearch communication is safely encrypted. For details, see https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions

RBAC (Role Based Access Control) is now licenced under the free-of-charge Elastic Basic licence. Previously, this security feature required a paid Gold-tier subscription. With the default distribution you can take advantage of RBAC by configuring users, groups, roles and permissions for any user from the file realm or the native realm . Download Elasticsearch, configure RBAC, and run your cluster in production, knowing your private data stays private. Note that our advanced security features, such as single sign-on and Active Directory/LDAP authentication to field-level and document-level security, remain paid features. For details, see https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions